BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER, M.D., F.E.S. 167 



CHILD LATIVITTALIS. 



Cravibiis lativittalis. Wlk., Brit. Miip. Cat. xxvii., p. 171, 

 Meyr., P.L.S.N.S.W., 1878, p. 183. 



Q., Stradbroke Island ; N.S.W., Sydney, Katooniba ; 

 v., Melbourne, Gisborne ; T., Deloraine, George's Bay ; S.A., 

 Ardrossan ; W.A., Albany, Perth. 



t CHILD TORRENTELLUS. 



Crambus torrentellus, Meyr., P.L.S.N.S.W., 1878, p. 184. 

 Q., Duaringa. Also from India and Africa. 



f CHILD STRIGATELLUS. 



Chilo strifjatellus, Hnips. 

 N.W.A., Sherlock River. 



CHILD OXYPRDRA. 



o^Wpwpos. with pointed prow ; in allusion to the frontal 

 process. ^ 



(J . 20 ntirt. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish ; frons 

 with a conical protuberance ending in a sharp slightly down- 

 curved point ; tongue weakly developed. Palpi long (4) ; 

 ochreous-whitish mixed with fuscous. Antennae fuscous ; in S' 

 dentate with short ciliations (|-). Abdomen ochreous-whitish. 

 Legs ochreous-whitish ; anterior and middle pairs annulated 

 with fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa 

 straight except close to base and apex, apex rounded, termen 

 obliquely rounded ; fuscous mixed with dark-fuscous and ochreous- 

 whitish ; an cchreous-whitish fascia from ^ costa, moderately 

 broad, not reaching dorsum, edged posteriorly by a dark-fuscous 

 line, which gives off a sharp posterior tooth in mid-disc ; a 

 fuscous discal dot beyond middle ; a well-marked sigmoid whitish 

 line from f costa to f dorsum ; a series of dark-fuscous terminal 

 dots ; cilia fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; ochreous- 

 whitish with some greyish suffusion ; cilia whitish with a pale 

 grey basal line. 



Not nearly allied to any Australian species. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



v., Murtoa, in March ; two specimens. 

 Gen. 13. Sedenia. 



Seilenia, Gn., Lep. viii, p. 249. Meyr., Tr. E.S. 1884, p. 

 341. Hmps., P.Z.S. 1895, p. 974. 



sedenia cervalis. 



Sedenid cercalis, Gn., Lep. viii, p. 250, PI. iii, f. 3. 



Q., Brisbane, Toowoomba, Dalby, Warwick ; N.S.W., 



Sydney; V. ; T., Hobart ; S.A., Mt. Lofty, 



Wirrabara. 



